The Making Of Modern Children S Literature In Britain

Author : Lucy Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317024750

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The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain by Lucy Pearson Pdf

Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature in Britain, with particular attention to children’s book publishing. Pearson begins with a critical overview of the discourse surrounding children’s literature during the 1960s and 1970s, summarizing the main critical debates in the context of the broader social conversation that took place around children and childhood. The contributions of publishing houses, large and small, to changing ideas about children’s literature become apparent as Pearson explores the careers of two enormously influential children’s editors: Kaye Webb of Puffin Books and Aidan Chambers of Topliner Macmillan. Brilliant as an innovator of highly successful marketing strategies, Webb played a key role in defining what were, in her words, ’the best in children’s books’, while Chambers’ work as an editor and critic illustrates the pioneering nature of children's publishing during this period. Pearson shows that social investment was a central factor in the formation of this golden age, and identifies its legacies in the modern publishing industry, both positive and negative.

Author : Andrew O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135947323

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The Making of the Modern Child by Andrew O'Malley Pdf

This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.

Author : Lucy Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317024767

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The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain by Lucy Pearson Pdf

Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature in Britain, with particular attention to children’s book publishing. Pearson begins with a critical overview of the discourse surrounding children’s literature during the 1960s and 1970s, summarizing the main critical debates in the context of the broader social conversation that took place around children and childhood. The contributions of publishing houses, large and small, to changing ideas about children’s literature become apparent as Pearson explores the careers of two enormously influential children’s editors: Kaye Webb of Puffin Books and Aidan Chambers of Topliner Macmillan. Brilliant as an innovator of highly successful marketing strategies, Webb played a key role in defining what were, in her words, ’the best in children’s books’, while Chambers’ work as an editor and critic illustrates the pioneering nature of children's publishing during this period. Pearson shows that social investment was a central factor in the formation of this golden age, and identifies its legacies in the modern publishing industry, both positive and negative.

Author : Julia Briggs,Dennis Butts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351910033

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Popular Children’s Literature in Britain by Julia Briggs,Dennis Butts Pdf

The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes even sustain - literary success.

Author : Catherine Butler,Kimberly Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137365019

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Modern Children's Literature by Catherine Butler,Kimberly Reynolds Pdf

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a guide to developments in children's literature over time and across genres. This stimulating collection of critical essays written by a team of subject experts explores key British, American and Australian works, from picture books and texts for younger children, through to graphic novels and young adult fiction. It combines accessible close readings of children's texts with informed examinations of genres, issues and critical contexts, making it an essential practical book for students. This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on Children's literature which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature or education degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying children's literature for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature or education. New to this Edition: - Revised and updated throughout in light of recent children's books and the latest research - Includes new coverage of key topics such as canon formation, fantasy and technology - Features an essay on children's poetry by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen

Author : Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477361

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 by Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins Pdf

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.

Author : Lucy Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613559093

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The Making of Modern Children's Literature by Lucy Pearson Pdf

Author : Kimberley Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191072130

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Left Out by Kimberley Reynolds Pdf

Left Out presents an alternative and corrective history of writing for children in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1949 a number of British publishers, writers, and illustrators included children's literature in their efforts to make Britain a progressive, egalitarian, and modern society. Some came from privileged backgrounds, others from the poorest parts of the poorest cities in the land; some belonged to the metropolitan intelligentsia or bohemia, others were working-class autodidacts, but all sought to use writing for children and young people to create activists, visionaries, and leaders among the rising generation.Together they produced a significant number of both politically and aesthetically radical publications for children and young people. This 'radical children's literature' was designed to ignite and underpin the work of making a new Britain for a new kind of Briton. While there are many dedicated studies of children's literature and childrens' writers working in other periods, the years 1910-1949 have previous received little critical attention. In this study, Kimberley Reynolds shows that the accepted characterisation of inter-war children's literature as retreatist, anti-modernist, and apolitical is too sweeping and that the relationship between children's literature and modernism, left-wing politics, and progressive education has been neglected.

Author : Elizabeth West
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000649581

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The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature by Elizabeth West Pdf

Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quality, certainly in comparison with the ‘golden ages’ of children’s literature that preceded and succeeded it. This book questions this perception by using archival evidence to argue that the work of what was predominantly a female group of editors, illustrators, authors and librarians (collectively referred to as bookwomen) resulted in many titles which are still considered as ‘classics’ today. The bookwomen reframed ideas about how children’s publishing should be approached and valued and, in doing so, laid the foundations for a subsequent generation of children’s authors and publishers who were to achieve far greater prominence. The key to the success of the bookwomen was their willingness to experiment, the strength of their relationships and their comprehensive understanding of the book production process. By focusing on a selection of women working across all aspects of the book production process, this book demonstrates that, both individually and collectively, women capitalised on their position as ‘other’ to the existing male institutions.

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107119017

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British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar by Gill Plain Pdf

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

Author : Clementine Beauvais
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414654

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Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature by Clementine Beauvais Pdf

Introduces you to the promises and problems of Charles Taylor's thought in major contemporary debates

Author : Keith O'Sullivan,Pádraic Whyte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137597571

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Children's Literature Collections by Keith O'Sullivan,Pádraic Whyte Pdf

This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.

Author : Haru Takiuchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319553900

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British Working-Class Writing for Children by Haru Takiuchi Pdf

This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and Robert Westall were examples of what Richard Hoggart termed ‘scholarship boys’: working-class individuals who were educated out of their class through grammar school education. This book highlights the role these writers played in changing the publishing and reviewing practices of the British children's literature industry while offering new readings of their novels featuring scholarship boys. As well as drawing on the work of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu, and referring to studies of scholarship boys in the fields of social science and education, this book also explores personal interviews and previously-unseen archival materials. Yielding significant insights on British children’s literature of the period, this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the fields of children’s and working-class literature and of British popular culture.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984521

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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture by Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu Pdf

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Author : A. Gavin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230361867

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The Child in British Literature by A. Gavin Pdf

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood.